Someone's working on a Facebook phone

Remember how Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said they weren't working on a Facebook phone? Maybe he's not (or wasn't at the time), but it sure looks like someone is. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group got a submission dated Dec. 23 for the INQ Cloud Touch that is described as the following:

INQ Cloud Touch is an Android smartphone built to make messaging faster and smarter. It’s designed around the way people naturally communicate and has Facebook built into its core. The homescreen features multiple entry points to different Facebook functions, while a dynamic widget displays a feed of status updates, albums, videos and photos.

A lot of that's your typical hardware/software talking points ("the way people naturally communicate"). But it's the "Facebook built into its core" and "multiple entry points to different Facebook functions" that perks our ears up a little bit. That and the whole Android-based thing. So maybe we're going to see an official Facebook phone. Or maybe somebody's tapping into whatever APIs are available. [Bluetooth SIG via Pocketnow]

Just sounds like Sense (but a little more Facebook integrated) to me. I don't see it being an official "Facebook Phone," maybe an unofficial Facebook focused phone. Facebook is on just about every Android phone made, they'd have to offer something pretty big to even be considered for a purchase by most.

If you think the android fb app is sweet you've never used an iPhone. Its miles better. They need to make an iPhone fb phone. All they are looking for is name recognition anyways. Ppl will buy iPhone no matter what it does. Or doesn't do. Someone needs to make a fully functioning fb app for android before they worry about some phone no one cares about.